[MBCook]

I don’t know.

They could have given away their connector 10 years ago and saved everyone a huge and expensive mess. But that’s in their interest. So instead dozens of companies wasted huge amounts of monies installing a bunch of cables that all have to be replaced.

Or the government could have seen that they had a better option and simply taken it and said it was the standard. But of course that wouldn’t be the American way.

So we suffered through a giant mess instead wasting time and money.

Tesla chose not to fix this until the damage was done and their benefit was small enough to be worth giving up.

[olyjohn]

The problem is that it seems like people who believe in the free market as the solution to everything are the same ones who work hard to monopolize and destroy it.

[rpmisms]

> They could have given away their connector 10 years ago

And nobody would have adopted it. They had to make it into a de facto standard first, and did. Now, anyone who adopts it gets an infrastructure boost.

> Tesla chose not to fix this until the damage was done

What damage? Massive EV adoption? Retrofits are not difficult, and adapters are cheap.